Ornamental hair-pin.



J. B. MARTIN.

ORNAMENTAL HAIR PIN.

APPLIOATION FILED 11111.23, 1909.

1,007,586, v Patented 0ct.31,1911.

COLUMBIA PLANOERAPH cu.. WASHINGTON, D. c.

UNITED STATES Parana ornron JULIUS R. MARTIN, OF PORTLAND, OREGON, ASSIGNOB. OF ONE-HALF T0 BER-NHARD J. BORGART, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

ORNAMENTAL HAIR-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIUS R. MARTIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ornamental Hair-Pins, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings as constituting a part thereof.

This invention has for its object to provide a skeleton frame or invisible structure which shall serve in the nature of a frame, adapted to have ribbon woven therein so as to make various designs of ornamental bows, to be used as an adornment of the hair and for like purposes; and to this end my invention consists of a frame comprising a plurality of loops adapted to have loops of ribbon drawn there-through in the process of arranging the ribbon into bows and other ornamental designs.

My invention may be more readily understood by having reference to the drawings constituting a part of this application, in which:

Figure 1 represents a rear end View of my device, showing the process of inserting loops of ribbon through the loops of the frame; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of my device arranged in the form of a rosette; Fig. 3 is a supplemental frame-member to be used in connection with the type of frame represented in Fig. 1, for the purpose of enlargvr ing the rosettes built thereon at the top of the middle of the frame; and Figs. 4: and 5 represent other types of my bow maker frames, arranged to be convenient for build ing smaller rosettes of ribbon thereon.

The letters designate the parts referred to.

In the drawing I have illustrated my bowmaker frame as made of wire, this material being found very convenient for the purose. p Referring in the first instance to the type of bow-maker frame disclosed in Fig. 1, the same is made of resilient wire and consists of a member a, on which are formed a plurality of loops 6, b, b and at the middle of the member, a, is provided a rigid hair-pin member 0, the last mentioned member being made of any convenient length, to enable the bow-maker frame to be secured in the hair. In Fig. 1 is also shown the process for making the bows or rosettes. It consists of taking a piece of ribbon, (Z, of sufiicient length and width, and arrangingthe same in loops, as cl, and drawing such loops through the eyes of the frame-loops, preferably starting with the middle loops 6 The ribbon used for the purpose must be of suflicient width to snugly fill the eyes of the frame-loops b, 6, b and in so doing secure the loops of the ribbon in place as finally arranged, substantially as shown. a

In Fig. 2 I have shown a front elevation of one type of ribbon effect, which may be produced by the use of a bow-maker frame of the type shown in Fig. l.

The designs that can be created are manifold, and must be left to the ingenuity of the user of my invention. The effects produced with the type of bow-maker frame shown in Fig. 1 may be varied by using in connection therewith a supplemental framemember of the type illustrated in Fig. 3. That is to say, by arranging the framemember shown in Fig. 8, and which is adapted to beplaced in registration with certain of the loops of the main frame, for example, so that the lower series of loops, 6, thereof will come over the two middle loops, 6 of the frame shown in Fig. 1, and by then drawing ribbon-loops like (Z through the eyes of both frame-parts, the supplemental member shown in Fig. 3 will be connected with the frame shown in Fig. 1, and thereupon loops of ribbon may be drawn through the eyes 6, 6 for the purpose of raising the rosette figure in the middle part of the design. Such use is self evident to all who understand the art of arranging ribbons to procure ornamental and esthet-ic effects, after the manner above described.

Fig. 4 shows a smaller type of bow-maker frame, for the purpose of producing a smaller form rosette, and Fig. 5 shows a type of bow-maker frame for the purpose of producing a larger circular rosette. The construction of these types of frames is self evident from the illustration thereof in the drawings, and the process of inserting and arranging the ribbon is the same as above described.

In marketing my invention, it is customary to sell all the types of bow-maker frames illustrated in the drawings as a set, so that the possessor of the set may make such combinations and varieties of rosettes as fancy dictates.

As already mentioned, it is convenient to make my bow-maker frame of wire, and to use for such a resilient wire, so that the frame may be adjusted to suit the manner in which the hair is dressed, and also to cause the frame itself to lie concealed within the hair tresses.

One of the main ideas I had in mind, in my invention, was that the frame on which the rosette or bow effects are built by ribbons, as mentioned, shall be invisible, being in part concealed in the tresses of the hair, and also by the loops of ribbon drawn through the eyes of the frame.

hen made of wire, the parts are conveniently arranged as illustrated in the drawings, having reference, for example, to Fig. 1. That is to say, the middle part of the main frame-member a is made with an integral loop f, and the hair-pin member 0 is made with a head 0 which is rigidly intel-woven with the frame loop f, as shown. The type of frame shown in Fig. 3, for example, may, furthermore, be used for making bows from ribbons to be used as hat trimmings.

I claim:

1. In a bow-maker frame, a skeleton frame made of wire, and consisting of a main mem her having integrally formed therewith a plurality of loops, the eyes of which are adapted to have loops of a ribbon inserted therethrough, said frame loops being arranged to group the inserted ribbon loops in esthetic effect, and a supplemental member also made of wire formed into a plurality of loops, which supplemental member is adapted to be placed in registration with certain of the loops of the main frame, so that the ribbon loops may be passed through both frame parts, for the purpose set forth.

2. An ornamental hair-pin consisting of a skeleton body made of wire and arranged in the form ofa plurality of contiguous loops; a centrally arranged downward projecting integral loop on said skeleton body; a hairpin, also made of wire, provided with a loop-head which head is interwoven with said downwardly projecting central loop of the skeleton body; and a ribbon arranged in a plurality of ornamental loops removably inserted in said loops of the skeleton body respectively, substantially as described.

JULIUS R. MARTIN.

Witnesses RALPH P. DUNIWAY, JOHN SPERB.

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